EXCLUSIVE: Live Nation Productions has tapped Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys) to pen a feature centered on ...

Live Nation Productions is bringing the story of one of music’s most groundbreaking pioneers to the screen: Sister Rosetta ...

A new biopic on Cotton Plant native Sister Rosetta Tharpe is in the works, and this one’s got some serious artistic muscle ...

Additional material will come from the Gayle Wald biography, Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll ...

A gospel superstar, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) combined traditional gospel music with virtuoso guitar solos on her Gibson SG to create a groundbreaking sound that would ...

The UK premiere, starring Beverley Knight, is running at Kingston’s Rose Theatre, before heading to Wolverhampton Grand and ...

Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has long believed that independent journalism has the capacity to bring about a ...

So it proves again in this two-hander about pioneering gospel singer and guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe and her mentorship ...

Beverley Knight starsBefore Elvis, Johnny Cash and Jimi Hendrix came Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the so-called 'godmother of rock ...

Musical icons abound in the pantheon of rock ‘n’ roll, but like so many brilliant African-American trailblazers in the roots of American music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe has been forgotten by many ...

Pop-star-turned-actress Beverley Knight on why Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis owed a huge debt to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, rock’s true ‘godmother’ ...

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